“Thinkers50 – 2011” - Professor M.S.Rao, Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants India

“If a gathering of crows is a murder, a group of foxes is a skulk and there is also a flight of butterflies, a descent of woodpeckers and many, many more, what should we call a collection of management gurus? And the answer is - An orchard of gurus” – www.thinkers50.com

I have received the mail from Thinkers50. Here is the latest list of Thinkers50 of 2011 as per their present ranking. The brackets indicate previous list's ranking and the (-) is a new entrant.

Top 50 Management Thinkers 2011

Ranking Name

• 1 Clayton Christensen (28)

• 2 W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne (5)

• 3 Vijay Govindarajan (24)

• 4 Jim Collins (17)

• 5 Michael Porter (11)

• 6 Roger Martin (32)

• 7 Marshall Goldsmith (14)

• 8 Marcus Buckingham (25)

• 9 Don Tapscott (39)

• 10 Malcolm Gladwell (2)

• 11 Sylvia Ann Hewlett (-)

• 12 Lynda Gratton (18)

• 13 Nitin Nohria (-)

• 14 Robert Kaplan & David Norton (37)

• 15 Gary Hamel (10)

• 16 Linda Hill (-)

• 17 Seth Godin (-)

• 18 Teresa Amabile (-)

• 19 Rita McGrath (-)

• 20 Richard Rumelt (-)

• 21 Richard D'Aveni (26)

• 22 Jeffrey Pfeffer (-)

• 23 David Ulrich (31)

• 24 Tom Peters (19)

• 25 Rosabeth Moss Kanter (27)

• 26 Nirmalya Kumar (-)

• 27 Pankaj Ghemawat (-)

• 28 Herminia Ibarra (-)

• 29 Daniel Pink (-)

• 30 Henry Mintzberg (33)

• 31 Costas Markides (47)

• 32 Thomas Friedman (30)

• 33 Tammy Erickson (46)

• 34 John Kotter (41)

• 35 Amy Edmondson (-)

• 36 Kjell Nordström & Jonas Ridderstråle (23)

• 37 Howard Gardner (16)

• 38 Henry Chesbrough (-)

• 39 Daniel Goleman (34)

• 40 Vineet Nayar (-)

• 41 Rakesh Khurana (44)

• 42 Fons Trompenaars (-)

• 43 Ken Robinson (-)

• 44 Andrew Kakabadse (-)

• 45 Stewart Friedman (-)

• 46 Adrian Slywotsky (-)

• 47 Stephen Covey (29)

• 48 Sheena Iyengar (-)

• 49 Umair Haque (-)

• 50 Subir Chowdhury (-)

From this list it is obvious that many management thinkers who are relatively younger in age have joined as management thinkers. Here is the link to name your favorite management thinker www.thinkers50.com

Professor M.S.Rao

Founder, MSR Leadership Consultants, India

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